Portfolio Director – Events

1 Year Maternity Contract

£90,000 - £100,000 + Bonus

Hybrid

Industry leading events business seeks a highly accomplished Portfolio Director to help shape the future business strategy across their flagship Life Science event portfolio.

The role involves working within the Confex team to manage their global Life Science team as maternity cover over the next 12 months.  There is a high probability for a permanent role at the end of this contract. 

The ideal candidate will have the opportunity to build on the success of current events in the US and Europe, and play a central role in shaping the future business strategy. This will involve adapting events to seize market share/changing landscape, while cementing business practices around production, sales, formats and sales.

This position is suitable for someone with enthusiasm, determination, confidence, and a strong work ethic, who is able to marry customer centricity with the commercial needs of the business.  

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Ensure the team live their purpose while being a high-performance team
• Deliver the budgeted EBITDA for the business reporting to Group MD
• Manage the business senior management team including Event Director, Content Lead, Marketing Director and Sales Lead. 
• Maintain best practices where they exist and adapt those that are inefficient, both at a P&L and at corporate level
• Hit business KPIs around activity, timelines and quality of product offering
• Drive growth in customer metrics
• Deliver with the ED and management team the overall 3-year brand strategy
• Maintain best in class training and on-boarding
• Meet regularly with key industry stakeholders 
• Ensure a culture that is inclusive, while being high performing

Profile of Candidate:

• A background in leading large-scale event teams around the world (Expos ideally)
• Have extensive experience in expos, conferences, with knowledge of content production, spex sales and conference marketing 
• Working in and managing teams in working in complex markets (Non-negotiable)
• A proven track record of delivering sales revenue against target, and managing high performing teams
• Demonstrable leadership skills, with experience of creating strategic and tactical commercial plans
• Strong project management skills within confex based events
• Confident and is able to build rapport and lasting relationships with senior executives and external stakeholders  

Lipton Media is a dynamic, proactive and progressive media recruitment agency solely dedicated to the media industry. We are leaders across media sales and creative opportunities.

We cover: media sales, digital media sales, print sales, exhibition sales, event sales, conference sales, outdoor sales, radio sales, marketing, conference production and editorial jobs. Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses.

We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge.